MIAMI, Fla. - The U.S. Coast Guard on Friday suspended a search for a boat believed to be carrying about 20 people that failed to return to Florida after traveling from the Bahamas.Searchers covered about 17,000 square miles between the Bahamas and South Florida for more than three days before calling off the operation.The boat left Bimini in the Bahamas on Monday with a destination of Lake Worth, Fla., then disappeared, Coast Guard officials said.
Lake Worth is about 63 miles north of Miami."Our thoughts and prayers go out to the families of the missing people," said Capt.
Stephen Burdian, chief of response for the Coast Guard’s seventh district. "I encourage anyone with information about the people aboard to contact us as soon as.